(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 43-year-old inmate in the Cimarron Correctional Facility — who is serving sentences totaling 75 years — has been charged with possessing methamphetamine and marijuana in the Cushing prison.
If convicted of the drug charge filed last week for which a court date has not yet been set, Rodney Eugene Gaines could be given an additional 20-year prison sentence, court records show.
Gaines has been continuously incarcerated since he was 21, according to state Department of Corrections records.
In 1991, he was convicted of assault and battery with a knife with intent to kill, armed robbery and unauthorized use of a vehicle, for which he was given sentences totaling 70 years from Caddo County, DOC records show.
During his incarceration in 2010, Gaines was convicted of possession of contraband by an inmate in Greer County, for which he was given an additional five-year prison term followed by 15 years of probation.
At age 18, Gaines had been convicted of unauthorized use of a vehicle in Caddo County in 1988 for which he was initially given probation that was changed in 1991 to a concurrent 18-month sentence, DOC records show.
In Gaines’ Payne County case, Cushing Police Officer Steven Jurczewsky was sent in November to the prison to talk to Cimarron Correctional Facility Investigator Joseph Sebenick, an affidavit said.
The prison investigator reported that a correctional officer was conducting searches when he found that Gaines had eight bags of a leafy green substance and two bags of a white crystal-like substance, the officer’s affidavit alleged.
Both substances were subsequently field-tested by the Cushing officer, who found that they were marijuana and methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged.
The alleged drugs were waded up in a ball in the left sleeve of the jacket of Gaines, who admitted that they were methamphetamine and marijuana, the affidavit alleged.
“During Investigator Sebenick’s interview with Gaines, Gaines stated, ‘This does nothing to me at all. That’s not enough dope to give anyone anytime whether it’s on the streets or in the real world,"” the affidavit alleged.
“Investigator Sebenick reported he told Gaines, ‘I just wanted to give you the opportunity to tell your side of the story.’
“According to Sebenick, Gaines stated, ‘My side of the story is on every camera in the facility in that area,"” before adding, “I have nothing further to say,” the affidavit alleged.
“Gaines wrote in his statement to Investigator Sebenick, ‘I’m not in fear of my life, and no I’m not going to be killed, or jumped on. I’m not being made to do any drug transporting — it’s all mine,"” the affidavit alleged.
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